...elotte, looking after some of the escort who had been wounded.
When he had arranged for their care, we set out to rejoin the King, and before going far, overtook his Majesty, who had stopped on the Chalons road, and was surrounded by a throng of fugitives, whom he was berating in German so energetic as to remind me forcibly of the Dutch swearing that I used to hear in my boyhood in Ohio.
The dressin...